Source Code (2011)

Source Code Synopsis

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he's ever known, he learns he's part of a government experiment called the Source Code, a program that enables him to cross over into another man's identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack. Filled with mind-boggling twists and heart-pounding suspense, Source Code is a smart action-thriller directed by Duncan Jones (Moon) also starring Michelle Monaghan (Eagle Eye, Due Date), Vera Farmiga (Up in the Air, The Departed), and Jeffrey Wright (Quantum of Solace, Syriana).

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Jones is certainly an interesting choice to take over for Aronofsky on Wolverine, another director who got his start in independent films and has a distinct vision (even though I thought Source Code was too generic and beneath Jones's skills, it has enough positive reviews to prove me wrong)

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Source Code is now in theaters and if you’re seeing anything this weekend, that’s the screen where you want to be. After you see it, walk out of the theater and find your way back to this page to let us know what you thought of Source Code, by rating it in the following reader poll.

Odds are you’re headed out to see Source Code today, it’s one of the best reviewed movies of the year, and the latest from Moon director Duncan Jones. That makes it worth your time. When you go, the ending you see may not be the only ending there is for Jake Gyllenhaal’s time traveling character.

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What would you do if you woke up and had no idea how you got where you are? What about when a beautiful woman across from you starts calling you by a different name than your own and references conversations that you don't remember having? What if you were go look at a mirror and see a face that isn't your own? If you said "Freak the fuck out" to any of the above three scenarios, then you are definitely not Col. Colter Stevens.

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The poster is boring. When you look back at the posters that were released for Moon a couple years back, not only the official poster but also the ones that weren't used, you can see a severe drop in artistic value when you come back to this Source Code image.

Here’s a new trailer for Source Code, the new movie from Moon director Duncan Jones which feels a lot like Quantum Leap but is probably more like Groundhog Day with a bomb. This look at the film is really more a teaser, which is strange, since we already have a full trailer and in the normal operation of trailer releasing, teasers usually come first.

Source Code is a time travel movie, sort of. Think Quantum Leap meets Groundhog Day and you’ll have some idea of what to expect from director Duncan Jones’ latest film. But here’s something that should give you time travel fans a little something extra to geek out about. At least some element of the movie seems to be working on Doc Brown’s Back to the Future time travel rules. Or at least that’s my explanation for what’s going on in this new Source Code clip.

If the first trailer for Duncan Jones’ Source Code didn’t hook you, this one most definitely will. Showing off a bit more of what will definitely be a story unlike any you’ve ever heard, this new trailer, which premiered over at HeyUGuys, builds on everything we saw in the domestic trailer a few weeks ago.

Earlier today Duncan Jones tweeted, “Just met with the lovely Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright. Feeling quite thrilled to have two such scorchingly good actors in Source Code!” Welcome to the cast Mr. Wright! Jake Gyllenhaal will lead as a soldier

What's cool about this casting, beyond the fact that apparently the two major supporting roles are for women, is that Farmiga and Monaghan are both perfect of-the-moment talents for Jones to get on board

Source Code is the next project for Moon director Duncan Jones and while its setting couldn’t possibly be more different than Sam Rockwell’s outer space moon base in his last movie, it plays in many of the same twisty